Most favouritest song ever!

That changes from week to week.

Currently, the song that I love most is Nick Drake's 'Fly'.

Rikki Lee Jones singin 'Walk Away Renee' on 'Girl at her Volcano'........ossum!

Great pick Nigel, a song that can really make me choke with emotion.

However I'd have to pick Prefab Sprout 'Bonny' (from Steve McQueen). Brilliant song that zips me back to a great time in my life.

Bruce

I too have many favourites, like most of you but the one I always, always come back to is
'Small Hours' by John Martyn.

It gives me peace!

atb
james

Good idea for a thread, but an utterly impossible task for me. As an avid listener to Desert Island Discs I'm always amazed that guests can ever arrive at eight, let alone one. I wonder how many suffer a post edition bout of "oh heck I forget.....".

Joe

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - For whom the bell tolls
Counting Crows - Round here

Queen Latifa singing "Lush Life"

Etta, "At Last" tho I can't really sing decently.

Happier: Beatles "Good Day Sunshine"

My favourite sings is

Who Knows Where The Time Goes by Sandy Denny and the Strawbs

and Save My ...

My two favourite songs are

Who Knows Where The Time Goes by Sandy Denny and the Strawbs

and Save My Soul by Wimple Winch

Who songs those sings?

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Originally posted by BigH47:
Who songs those sings?

My favourite traditional song is Nottamun Town by Dame Shirley Collins.

Everything She Wants - Wham/George Michael. Without a shadow of a doubt this is the song I would take away with me on a desert island. It meant so much in the past but we still dance to it now.

very much a current fave

Squeeze - Cool For Cats


makes me smile, makes me sing (sort of), brings me back and it's lyrical folk poetry


SJB

If I Fell - The Beatles

John & Paul never sounded better (even accounting for Paul's vocal break on the chorus). Seemingly a love song but Lennon tells a story of jealously and pain which cuts like a knife.

Hey That's No Way to Say Goodbye - Leonard Cohen

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Originally posted by munch:
There are so many???
The one song that always does it for me is the Jimi Hendrix version of All Along The Watchtower.
The intro drags me in for the ride,And has done from the first time i heard it all those years ago..

Very close for me too, Stu, along with 'Layla' and 'Have You Ever Loved a Woman?" on the same album.

However, all are pipped for me by 'Little Wing' by Hendrix, short and very, very sweet.

Certainly one of my favourite songs.

I would say this has to be my favourite single of all time - the perfect pop single - just thought lots of folk may never have heard it - so here it is.

ROTF,

great choice with Martha and the Muffins! Love it!

Also liked the Wimple Winch track - never heard it before.

More please...

Impossible choice really; might change from day to day.

At the mo' it's 'Made of stone'. Stone Roses.

But then again it's usually The Jam's 'Private hell'.

Or perhaps New Order's 'Touched by the Hand of God'

or......

Hi Richard

Wimple Winch were originally (Dee Fenton) & the Silhouettes and were a Merseybeat band (although they came from Stockport), they then became the Four Just Men and subsequently decided to call themselves Just Four Men - Dimitrius (Dee) Christopholus was the vocalist and lead guitarists and wrote the songs - Things Will Never Be The Same and Don't Come Any Close were the best of these. Christopholus went on to appear in Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar and was in the TV series Rock Follies along with Julie Covington.

However, it was the metamorphosis in to Wimple Winch in which they really started to make great records. As well as Save My Soul//Everybody's worried about tomorrow was released on Fontana in 1966 and was their second single, the followup was released in 1967 Rumble on Mersey Square South/Typical British workmanship also on Fontana. I think some versions of Rumble on Mersey Square South were backed with the excellent Atmospheres, which is a much but better flip side in all honesty. . There was a lot of unissued material recorded by the group and this has surfaced on CD a few times.

The best CD collection is Tales From The Sinking Ship, which of course, takes it name from The Sinking Ship in Stockport. However, Save My Soul is the standout track and much better than anything else on the CD.

I first heard Save My Soul on The Chocolate Soup for Diabetics compilation, but you can also find it on many psych compilations - the best of which is the 20 CD Rubble set - believe me Rubble is incredible and there aren't many duff tracks on these CDs.

Here are three other great tracks from the time



Colour of my Mind by The Attack a group which featured John DuCann who was later in Atomic Rooster and wrote Devil's Answer.



Another of my favourite singles from the era was by Fire and called Father's Name Was Dad. Originally it flopped completed, but it was remixed by Paul McCartney and went on to flop again.



Thirdly here is London Social Degree by Billy Nichols: a close friend of the late great Steve Marriot. His album Would You Believe surpasses the album that influenced it IMHO, the Beach Boys Pet Sounds - although nowhere near as well recorded.

Worth noting that some of these recordings can sound lifeless on some systems - however give them a go on a Naim system, especially with a CDX style front-end and they burst in to life - even better with CDX2/555PS when it is as if the musicians take a step forward and really go for it. The Naim DAC really works a treat with these recordings too.

ATB Rotf

ROTF, thanks!

Stu sent me a recommendation of Tales From The Sinking Ship. It's on order...

Like the Attack track...

As for my own pick, it's a tough choice with so many vying for contention. However, if I think of the albums that I have loved most throughout my life then I guess David Bowie's Hunky Dory gets to No.1.

So, from Hunky Dory I choose Life On Mars?

This a song that Neil McCormick summed up thus: "A quite gloriously strange anthem, where the combination of stirring, yearning melody and vivid, poetic imagery manage a trick very particular to the art of the song: to be at once completely impenetrable and yet resonant with personal meaning. You want to raise your voice and sing along, yet Bowie’s abstract cut-up lyrics force you to invest the song with something of yourself just to make sense of the experience. And, like all great songs, it's got a lovely tune."

I couldn't put it better myself. It has added resonance because it takes me back to my youth hanging out with my late older sister, Sarah.

A much darker choice: Madness and Overdone from the album Absolutely.

Seriously...

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Originally posted by Redmires:
If I Fell - The Beatles

John & Paul never sounded better (even accounting for Paul's vocal break on the chorus). Seemingly a love song but Lennon tells a story of jealously and pain which cuts like a knife.

...Me too mate! ...which is kind of weird considering how many Beatle songs (never mind how many non fab four somgs we have to choose from!)

If I Fell is indeed achingly sad and brings back so many memories to me of when it was released.